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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today it is an embarrassment that some people needed to stand in line for basic health care in the United States.

Summer is here and the evenings are perfect for exploring the arts on Chincoteague Island.

A record 200 volunteers from the University of Virginia will travel to the Kentucky-Virginia Fairgrounds to work at the ninth annual Remote Area Medical Clinic in Wise, VA from July 25-27. During its thirty ...

WISE, Va. - A $30 million convocation center will be built at The University of Virginia's College at Wise, college officials announced today.

Announcement : The Grascals Headline Annual Dock Boggs and Kate Peters Sturgill Festival BMNN wrote: on Jul.

People who attend Fred LaSpina's church cheerfully support the congregation's missions in Haiti.

On the day Dominion Virginia Power began construction of a coal-fired power plant in Southwest Virginia, 12 people were arrested in Richmond for protesting the plant.

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The state Air Pollution Control Board unanimously approved air permits for Dominion Virginia Power's 585-megawatt coal-fired plant in Wise County Wednesday evening, but cut its permissible sulfur dioxide ...

Thirteen people were arrested today for blockading the entrance to Dominion Resources' corporate headquarters to protest the company's plan for a new coal-fired power plant in Southwest Virginia.

For the last year in Virginia we have been fighting tooth and nail against a new coal fired power plant in Wise Co., Va , one of the few coal producing counties in this state, and a place where King Coal still ...

Wise County is one step closer to having a modicum of economic prosperity handed to it: A Virginia regulatory board yesterday approved key permits for a new coal-fired electric plant in the state's southwest ...

Special to The Virginian-Pilot Environmentalists say mining methods that use dynamite to clear trees and rocks to reach coal on mountaintops, such as this one in Wise County, Va., are ecologically dangerous.

Moore holds a record of "Dad, Sister and Mother Are Gone," which was written by his wife.

The Virginia Tourism Corp., the Heart of Appalachia Tourism Authority and the Wise County Tourism Committee will host free customer service training at 2 p.m. on June 18 at the Wise County Education Center, ...

When a Virginia State Police trooper discusses with a motorist the need to buckle up, usually the conversation carries the tone of a lecture and is accompanied by a ticket.

The war was over and the Allied occupation was building, but peace hadn't settled completely over the nation of Japan when Tom Miller sailed into Nagoya aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Newman K. Perry.

Sarah Rispin's letter [" Dominion's plans for Wise aren't green ," May 13] about Dominion's proposed Virginia City Energy Center in Southwest Virginia falls far short of telling the complete story.

Brad Price sprints to the finish! Brad Price is having himself a great year of bicycle racing in the Masters Men 30-39 field.

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